A FRAMEWORK of MAJOR HISTORIOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION in FRANCE in the LAST TWO CENTURIES

This article aims to overview major historiographical developments in France of the last two centuries. Especially focusing on the so-called Annales school, I intend to deal with social and academic context of this production and evaluate its recent trends and repositionnements. Even if today Annales-type history writing is practiced in a lesser extent in France, because of some recent approaches and trends such as the linguistic-turn, post-colonial studies, Global and Connected-History etc., the famous “school” which grosso modo dominated the continental historiography still continues to influence historians. One must as well think in reflective manner about historiographical operations while doing history and revision of major schools” helps to to conceive better these operations that one consciously or not put in place in his/her assumptions and writings in general